Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet

Volume 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-58046-229-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 326 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.

Modern composers as diverse as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players-and of listeners in the concert hall and at home. Yet, until now, no book has addressed the language of these remarkable works, their interactions with the masterpieces of Beethoven and others, and theirnew approaches to musical expression. Intimate Voices, organized in rough chronological order, offers the observations and intuitions of leading authorities on quartets by twenty-one composers from eleven countries. Its two volumes-available separately or together-comprise an indispensable guide to amateur and professional chamber musicians, scholars, students, and anyone seeking a deeper acquaintance with the great achievements of twentieth-century music.

Edited by Evan Jones, Associate Professor of Music Theory, Florida State University College of Music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Evan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Saiteninstrumente

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The String Quartets of Debussy and Ravel - Marianne Wheeldon
Sibelius's "Internal Voices": Structure and Process in the Quartet in D Minor (Voces Intimae), Op. 56 - Joseph C. Kraus
The Pitch Language of the Bartók Quartets - Joseph N. Straus
The String Quartet in the Music of Paul Hindemith - David Neumeyer
Comprehensibility, Variation, and the String Quartet Tradition: The Second Movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Third Quartet, Op. 30 - Matthew R. Shaftel
Process in the String Quartets of Alban Berg - David Headlam
Webern's Music for String Quartet - David Clampitt
Villa-Lobos's String Quartets - Eero Tarasti
Appropriate Tradition: The String Quartets of Sergei Prokofiev, Opp. 50 and 92 - Neil Minturn